The Ascension of Contracted Spirits

Chapter 921 - 366: Chase the Stars, Fireworks, Yeren

Wei Nan, Wei Liu, leading their subordinates, left with utmost respect.

Once the outsiders were gone, Li Jingming took a deep breath, showing a trace of fatigue.

He returned to his beast-skin armchair, rubbed his temples with both hands, and then lit the soul incense candle on the desk.

"Sssss."

The sweet aroma of orange peels mixed with lemon rose gently in the cave.

Li Jingming’s expression returned to normal, and he picked up the scroll, meticulously continuing his reading.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

After a while, the sound of living creatures moving could be heard underground.

A large moth trailing purple haze, a humanoid mantis with arms transformed into mud cannons, and an insect holding a shield, lined up in a column and emerged from another passage.

"Sutsu! Sutsu sutsu!"

"A-Ni sauce! Iku iku!"

"Bang bang! Thud ga! Doo doo!"

The three insect Fond Spirits with noticeable size differences were, in their own insect languages, scrambling to express something.

Li Jingming’s ears twitched, he immediately put down the scroll, his face showing a moment of surprise:

"They’re back... Unharmed... So smoothly?"

His figure flickered lightly, and Li Jingming forcefully recalled "Mud Cannon Mantis" and "Shield Bettle," keeping only "Zixia Moth" before diving into the passage from which they had come.

The movement of the man and the insect was very fast, traversing hundreds of meters with each breath.

Along the way, in different caves, earthworms, crickets, moths, insects, dragonflies, mosquitoes, locusts... Hundreds of insect lairs were protected by energy barriers, undisturbed and coexisting peacefully.

"Sorry, I can’t play with you now, I’ll add a bit to your meal."

Li Jingming smiled slightly, and wherever he passed, the insects inside their lairs would get excited, flapping wings and wiggling their butts as if seeing a family member.

At these times, his hand would produce a piece of orange-yellow crystalline substance, thrown into the lairs, which the insects began frantically scrambling for.

"Alright, alright, there’s enough for all, don’t be so greedy."

Li Jingming spoke in human language, and those insects, despite not possessing higher intelligence, understood him and order was quickly restored under the management of their insect king.

"Whoosh!"

Li Jingming, Zixia Moth, reached the destination successfully.

That was the tenth level underground, a very hidden, very quiet super meeting room filled inside out with shielding devices.

On regular days, only the highest-ranking managers of Zhuxing, also known as "Alliance Hierarchs," could enter here with their consent.

"Ao!!"

A Pink Winged Dragon King with brightly-colored scale armor was suspending upside-down from the ceiling.

Seeing Li Jingming enter, it howled once and dove down quickly.

"Sutsu!"

Zixia Moth immediately flapped a haze of light, turning into numerous afterimages, and leapt to a spot five hundred meters away.

Misfiring, the Pink Winged Dragon King stood on the ground, spreading its massive wings, looking around for Zixia Moth with an air of nobility to outsiders, but to its own kind, it was nothing but whimsically naughty.

"Tuotuo, stop messing around."

"Lanlan, control your wife."

"Ever since having the baby, how come your tastes have changed? Just because you birthed a ’Purple Winged Dragon,’ you started to like purple as well?"

At the leftmost position of the insect-shell round table, there sat a woman with emerald green short hair.

She was about 1.75 meters tall, with skin tending towards brown.

Her curvaceous hourglass figure paired with perfectly fitting dragon blood armor gave off the impression of a battle-hardened female general.

"Ao!"

Another blue-winged dragon of similar size, also clinging to the ceiling, dove down upon hearing the command.

It bit the Pink Winged Dragon’s wing, dragging it to stop the chase after Zixia Moth.

"Alright now, I know you miss the child, but Xunxun isn’t my Contract Creature, and I can’t carry it around all the time, as you know."

Su Mei leapt into the air and landed on the Pink Winged Dragon King’s head, gently stroking its pink scales and soothing:

"Be patient, once we return to our base, you will naturally see it."

"No need to worry about its safety, it’s over a hundred years old, and as an Extinction Degree Fetus, with followers for protection, nothing will happen."

"Ao..."

Pink Winged Dragon King Tuotuo, fluttering its bright eyes, folded its wings and made a gesture of bowing its head like an ostrich.

"Whoosh!"

Cold frost mist descended from above, greeting the hexagonal snowflakes filling the sky. There was a slim-fat mini-dragon with only one-fifth the size of Pink and Super Blue Wing Dragon Kings, bearing two white dragon horns, landing on the ground quietly and peacefully.

"Frost Dragon... a rare dragon species from the Late Ancient Era... a Demon Fond Spirit that masters ice-based spells..."

"Is this your third Contracted Spirit Fond Spirit?"

"Tuotuo is in charge of close combat, Lanlan specializes in water-based spells, and with additional assistance from an ice-based one, it can be said to be a strong combination..."

"Having been at the Seventh Rank for decades, you finally found a suitable dragon Fond Spirit, congratulations!"

Li Jingming, standing at the door, brightened up and then mused:

"However, as far as I know, even though Julu Forest’s environment is much richer than Giant Frog Marsh, it’s predominantly plants, which doesn’t seem like Frost Dragon’s habitat. How did you come across it?"

"All thanks to Feifei!"

Su Mei jumped down from Tuotuo’s head, and in the absence of outsiders, affectionately hugged the third person’s arm.

The person she hugged was naturally a woman, with a tall stature and long wavy reddish-brown hair, exuding a knightly valiance.